What if its enough to knock the moon out of its normal orbit?? And
.. You think climate change is a problem?.
We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it.
It’s nowhere even remotely close to affect the moon’s orbit any more than a rocket crashing back to earth could affect the earth’s orbit around the sun. Some back of the envelope approximate numbers - mass of moon is 7x10^22 kg. Orbital radius is 380,000 km. Orbital period is 29 days. With those numbers we can calculate the moons speed as 2xpix380000x1000 meters divided by 29x24x3600 seconds. This gives 960 meters per second. The kinetic energy is 1/2 x mass x speed squared, which gives 3.3x10^28 Joules, or in gigajoules as quoted in the article, 3.3x10^19 GJ. This is greater than the impact energy by a factor of something like 30 quintillion. It will have absolutely no measureable effect on the moon’s orbit.